Telugu Association of Minnesota (TEAM) serves at Feed My Starving Children
On June 25, 2011 TEAM with it's young volunteers along with parents and committee members have server at Feed My Starving Children in Eagan, Minnesota.
About 100 TEAM volunteers, mostly children packed the meal for the kids in Haiti a Caribbean Island.
TEAM as a part part of it's social service activity taken up this task to promote the service motto in young children of it's community. On TEAM's invitation to sign up for this noble cause, lot of young children came forward for the voluntary service.
Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit organization committed to feeding the children hungry in body and spirit. Children and adults hand-pack meals specifically formulated for malnourished children, and ships to nearly 70 countries around the world.
About 100 TEAM volunteers gathered at the FMSC location by 2 pm and attended a orientation session about the process.
Volunteers learned about rules and regulations to maintain clean and hygiene environment while packing the food and the ingredients, measurements etc. As the warehouse team moved the ingredients in to packing area, kids and parents swiftly started the packing process measuring right ingredients with right quantities while weighing and sealing the the bags. Sealed packets were boxed and checked by TEAM's quality control team and accounted for shipping crates. As the process geared up some nice Indian/telugu music was played to entertain hard working volunteers.
In two hours TEAM volunteers have prepared for about 20,000 meals in 3,312 packets. It is measured as whole meal for 55 kids for one year! It was an exciting and valuable experience for young children doing a voluntary service which directly help feed other kids who are in disparate need in Haiti. FMSC thanked all the volunteers and TEAM for their service. TEAM arranged refreshments to all volunteers after the event, in near by park, in appreciation of their services.
TEAM president Hari Pallempati thanked all the kids, parents, and TEAM members for working hard to make this event a grand success and expressed happiness for the support. TEAM plans to do more service oriented activities like this in future. TEAM also presented a certificate of appreciation to all young volunteers for their service.
